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Pakistan asks India to share information on Mumbai blasts

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, July 17, IRNA
Pakistan-Indian Blasts
Pakistan asked India on Monday to share any 'solid information or concrete evidence' about last week's Mumbai blasts on trains, which had killed some 200 people.

India had suspected Pakistan-based hard-line groups to have connections with the Mumbai blasts, a charge denied by the groups.

"There is a standing offer from Pakistan to cooperate in investigations if evidence or information is provided to us," Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan told a news conference in Islamabad.

This is the way the international community cooperates with one another, Khan said.

Pakistan is also investigating killing of about fifty people by terrorists in Karachi early this year and if there are leads it would approach those countries for investigating those leads, the foreign secretary said.

Replying to a question he said Pakistan has not received any formal communication from India to substantiate its allegations in connection with the Mumbai blasts.

To a question the foreign secretary said Pakistan does not allow its territory to be used against any other country.

"This is our firm policy and commitment. Pakistan is part of the international coalition against terror and has done more than any one else on this account."
To a question the foreign secretary agreed that there was lack of progress in Pakistan-India talks in the sense that the process was not in conformity with the expectations but added that the peace process has various aspects.

It attempts at building confidence through specific measures and aims at resolving problems including Jammu and Kashmir dispute.

There has been progress on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), there has been a level of improved relationship between the two countries.

He said there was also global interest in the success of the peace process.

He said Pakistan and India must learn to resolve problems rather than to live with them, adding that Pakistan would not like reversing any of the CBMs already agreed.

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